Patanaai Farmers Producer Company Limited

Patanaai Farmers Producer Company Limited is located in Tembhi. Pramod Parashram Marape is the one who handles a lot of the work here at house number 226. Tembhi is a small place, and everyone knows everyone else’s business. We started this because we were tired of being told what to do by people who don't even know how to hold a shovel. We grow what we can and try to sell it together. It makes the transport costs a bit lower, which helps everyone in the long run. Our office is just a part of the house. You might hear the cows or children playing in the background while we are trying to do the accounts. It isn't professional in the way people in the city might think, but it works for us. We have our meetings in the evenings when the sun goes down and the heat isn't so bad. We talk about the soil and which seeds worked well last time. Sometimes we argue about which market to go to. Yavatmal district can be a hard place to be a farmer, but we are used to it. We don't have any fancy mission. We just want to make sure we can buy what we need for our families. We are learning as we go. Some days we feel like we know what we are doing, and other days we are just guessing. That is just how life is in Tembhi.